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Window
of Opportunity, 1999
"Situation trouvée", Washington Heights N.Y., an 8 minute-long
video film of a person telephoning in a corridor being watched secretly
by a so-called spy through a doorway into an apartment.
I find the clash between the private and the public, between private
and business life and the obvious reference in the video film to the invisible
extremely strong: The observer in his hiding place, the person on the
other end of the line - somewhere out there - the charged, claustrophobic,
aggressive situation, the feeling of voyeurism, the breaking of boundaries
and rules of observation from the perspective of a hiding place.
The switch of the line of vision of the observer, who now stares from
the open room into the screen and via the hidden observer into the scene
beyond
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